And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
WILLIAM BLAKEI must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
More William Blake Quotes
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently invisibly.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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